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Definition of declaim in US English:

declaim

verb

reporting verbUtter or deliver words or a speech in a rhetorical or impassioned way, as if to an audience.

with object‘she declaimed her views’

no object‘a preacher declaiming from the pulpit’

‘an opportunity to declaim against the evils of society’

‘That these same words had been declaimed ten years earlier in rather different circumstances is not mentioned.’

‘‘NGOs could be playing a more significant role,’ Omayma Khalil, secretary of the Women's National Council at Al-Tor City Council declaims.’

‘Beautifully staged, with wonderfully spoken rather than declaimed language which makes it so much more understandable… at moments it seemed almost modern though I don't think the script was adapted at all.’

‘In 1926, when O'Casey's The Plough and the Stars, was produced, there were violent scenes, Yeats declaiming to the audience that they had disgraced themselves again.’

‘So there we were, declaiming the lines, complete with interpretive dance, and the audience sat there completely straight-faced and took everything seriously.’

‘He once started a concert by declaiming, in the haughtiest classical French, ‘I want to make one thing clear before I begin.’’

‘His mouth was open, as though he were about to declaim a poem, or speak an epigram.’

‘‘The Tory party is immortal,’ he declaims, though he is hazier about precisely when its political fortunes will revive.’

‘‘It is all a matter of resources,’ she declaimed.’

‘‘Those words mean something to me,’ he declaimed.’

‘‘A policeman without a gun is not a policeman! ‘he declaims and this axiom defines the gun culture of the Bonaerense.’’

‘Eminem, now wearing a smart suit and red tie, declaims in a style reminiscent of Martin Luther King.’

‘You can actually understand his words, and he declaims poetry as if he knows what it means.’

‘He has one of those public school faces that was created solely to stare up at blue English skies from a gently rocking punt while a tousle-haired type declaims Rupert Brooke.’

‘Although suspicious of unknown admirers, Tennyson was a sociable man, with a fondness for declaiming his work to a respectful audience.’

‘At first I couldn't make out the words, just the preternaturally LOUD sound of a boy's voice flatly declaiming some sort of Important Announcement.’

‘Speeches declaimed from the front of the stage explore theories about what is real and when an illusion becomes reality.’